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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2001
Alex Xin Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Julie Ann Ward, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tongwei Liu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Alex Xin Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Julie Ann Ward, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Tongwei Liu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for generating a demand estimate for a product includes gathering a set of auction data which is relevant to the product, removing from the auction data all but a highest bid from each unique bidder in the auction data, and correcting a bias in the auction data caused by a set of characteristics of an auction from which the auction data is obtained. In one embodiment, the auction data is obtained from an on-line auction which is characterized by bidders not necessarily knowing the start time of the auction.